Compliance Stuff

WASHINGTON – Over the past 15 months of the second Trump Administration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the leadership of Chair Andrea Lucas has undertaken exhaustive efforts to restore evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws on behalf of all Americans, including by delivering on Administration civil rights enforcement priorities and implementing key deliverables entrusted to the EEOC in 11 different Executive Orders. [i] The majority of the EEOC’s law enforcement work is confidential and remains so prior to a public settlement or filing of a legal action. While confidentiality requirements limit our ability to share the full scope of our activities, the agency is working tirelessly to ensure equal opportunity for American workers. To date, the EEOC has taken the following public actions: EEOC Protects Religious Freedom Since January 2025, the EEOC has filed 16 religious discrimination lawsuits and recovered over $63 million on behalf of re...

At a Glance The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI’s updates on federal legislation, regulations, and congressional activity affecting the workplace. U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether Agencies Can Levy Monetary Fines Without Going to Court  The U.S. Supreme Court has  accepted  a case,  Sun Valley Orchards v. U.S. Department of Labor , asking whether federal agencies can collect monetary penalties through their in-house enforcement schemes. The case comes out of the Department of Labor’s procedure for enforcing wage violations in the H-2A visa program. The Department’s procedure funnels cases into a hearing before an administrative-law judge (an agency employee). That hearing can then be followed by an appeal to the Department’s own Administrative Review Board. Last year, a court of appeals  held  that this procedure violated Article III of the U.S. Constitution. Article III requires all “private...